Mark Twain and America. From Whitman to Hemingway

The book of the famous literary critic and critic Abel Startsev-Kunin is devoted to the work of the classics of American literature. This book We are talking about such key figures of the US literary history as: Walt Whitman, Henry Toro, German Melville, Bret Gart, about the outstanding American writers of the twentieth century - Francis Scott Fitzgerald, William Folkner, Ernest Haucinguei and Mark Twain.
Essays and portraits included in this collection are united by the general approach of the author to the problems of the development of US literature in the retrospective of social issues and the development of society for 100 years. Why American classic writers-Melville, Gart, Toro, Twain, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway remain so relevant today, revealing in their work the issues of war and the world, consumer policy of capital, excluding human dignity and social justice. Why are the reader Dick, the Great Gatsby, Walden, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, financier Frank Kauperwood, the old man and his sea are still so attracted to the reader